[rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, There seems to be next to no traffic on this list, no updates (in the dev changelog) since 2009(?) and 53 bugs in the tracker. Is anything being done on this package? Is anyone reading the list? Cheers, Richard ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread David Precious
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 23:45:51 +1300 Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > There seems to be next to no traffic on this list, no updates (in the > dev changelog) since 2009(?) and 53 bugs in the tracker. > > Is anything being done on this package? sol1 took over maintainership in 2016 "with the ble

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Dominic Raferd
I am still reading the list and actively using rdiff-backup, which works well. However it seems to be effectively unmaintained and has been for some time. I don't do python sadly. It would be great if someone such as Patrik could take it on (as he has done so well for rdiffweb, which provides a bro

[rdiff-backup-users] backups failing

2018-02-05 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I have a problem with an (inherited) rdiff-backup setup - actually used from backupninja. When I try to run a backup, I get: OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: /foo.2018-01-30T08:55:35Z.dir I get the same thing if I run with --check-destination-dir. I'm not clear why the fil

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 06/02/18 00:04, David Precious wrote: > On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 23:45:51 +1300 > Richard Hector wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> There seems to be next to no traffic on this list, no updates (in the >> dev changelog) since 2009(?) and 53 bugs in the tracker. >> >> Is anything being done on this package? >

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backups failing

2018-02-05 Thread Dominic Raferd
On 5 February 2018 at 10:59, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a problem with an (inherited) rdiff-backup setup - actually used > from backupninja. > > When I try to run a backup, I get: > > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: > /foo.2018-01-30T08:55:35Z.dir > > I get the same t

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Janne Peltonen
On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 12:27:32AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On 06/02/18 00:04, David Precious wrote: > > It would be nice if http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ were updated to > > refer to the Github repo. +1 > >> Is anyone reading the list? > > Well, I am, at least :) Also still actively

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backups failing

2018-02-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 06/02/18 00:27, Dominic Raferd wrote: > On 5 February 2018 at 10:59, Richard Hector wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a problem with an (inherited) rdiff-backup setup - actually used >> from backupninja. >> >> When I try to run a backup, I get: >> >> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: >

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 06/02/18 00:42, Janne Peltonen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 12:27:32AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 06/02/18 00:04, David Precious wrote: >>> It would be nice if http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ were updated to >>> refer to the Github repo. > > +1 Likewise the Debian package page.

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Rudy Zijlstra
On 2018-02-05 12:42, Janne Peltonen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 12:27:32AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 06/02/18 00:04, David Precious wrote: >>> It would be nice if http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ were updated to >>> refer to the Github repo. > +1 > Is anyone reading the list

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Jari Mikkilä
On 5.2.2018 13:58, Rudy Zijlstra wrote: On 2018-02-05 12:42, Janne Peltonen wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 12:27:32AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: On 06/02/18 00:04, David Precious wrote: It would be nice if http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ were updated to refer to the Github repo. +1 I

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Rainer Plum
+1 Rainer home + prod Am 05.02.2018 um 11:45 schrieb Richard Hector: Hi all, There seems to be next to no traffic on this list, no updates (in the dev changelog) since 2009(?) and 53 bugs in the tracker. Is anything being done on this package? Is anyone reading the list? Cheers, Richar

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Lew Wolfgang
On 02/05/2018 03:04 AM, David Precious wrote: Is anyone reading the list? Well, I am, at least:) Also still actively using rdiff-backup. As do I!  We couldn't get along without it!  I back up dozens of desktops and servers containing many terabytes of data.  Just last week a user asked me to

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Glenn Hollowell
Me too.  On Mon, 2018-02-05 at 14:45 +0200, Jari Mikkilä wrote: > On 5.2.2018 13:58, Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > > > > On 2018-02-05 12:42, Janne Peltonen wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 12:27:32AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > > > > > > > On 06/02/18 00:04, David Precious wrote: > > >

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Mr. Clif
+1 at home and production servers. Also wrote this: https://eugenemakerspace.com/wiki/Sites/Rdiff-backup-delete would be nice if that functionality could be folded back in to Rdiff-backup. :-)     Clif Cox On 02/05/2018 07:43 AM, Glenn Hollowell wrote: Me too. On Mon, 2018-02-05 at 14:45 +0

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread C O'Donnell
+6 production servers, one with ~1.4T data. On 02/05/2018 01:25 PM, Mr. Clif wrote: +1 at home and production servers. Also wrote this: https://eugenemakerspace.com/wiki/Sites/Rdiff-backup-delete would be nice if that functionality could be folded back in to Rdiff-backup. :-)     Clif Co

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Patrik Dufresne
Love your Rdiff-backup-delete . I should really try to integrate those feature into rdiffweb. Same for the regress script written by Dominic. -- Patrik Dufresne Service Logiciel inc. http://www.patrikdufresne.com

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Eric Robinson
I have 100 Linux servers are that dependent on rdiff-backup. Our backup strategy revolves around it. We sure hope it does not go away! > -Original Message- > From: rdiff-backup-users [mailto:rdiff-backup-users- > bounces+eric.robinson=psmnv@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Lew Wolfgang > Sent

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Enhancement request: other compression methods

2018-02-05 Thread Mr. Clif
+1 here, by the way, it's highly desirable if your compression algorithm keeps changes localized so rsync can efficiently just transfer the differences. Right now gzip, and it's multi-threaded version pigz are the only compression utilities that provides this "--rsyncable" option. The others

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/05/2018 12:25 PM, Mr. Clif wrote: +1 at home and production servers. Also wrote this: https://eugenemakerspace.com/wiki/Sites/Rdiff-backup-delete would be nice if that functionality could be folded back in to Rdiff-backup. :-)     Clif Cox I wrote a script that does that too. Calling

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still maintained?

2018-02-05 Thread Graeme Robinson
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 10:42 PM, Janne Peltonen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 12:27:32AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 06/02/18 00:04, David Precious wrote: >> > It would be nice if http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ were updated to >> > refer to the Github repo. > > +1 > >> >> Is anyone